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Our letters never quite sated my appetite, though. We addressed stiff, technical issues like free cash flow or capital adequacy. Frankly, the ratios made my teeth hurt. I longed to write stories about Wall Street's people, the crazy things that percolate through trading floors and broker bullpens. I wanted to write words like "abso-**cking-lutely" and not worry about repercussions from corporate compliance.

When Top Producer hits the racks in the fall of 2009, you will find that I tell such stories and use such language. My people, characters that is, hail from the trenches of finance. Brokers. Traders. Sales assistants. There is the occasional CEO, or the bigger than life hedgie. But I am not trying to pluck some legend from the business press and fictionalize that person. I care about the rank and file, the everyday Joes that come with warts and canker sores. They find themselves thrust into uncomfortable worlds by forces far beyond their control.

I'm a wealth management professional with deep experience on both the "buy" and "sell" sides. I've worked for the big investment banks: Morgan Stanley, Paine Webber, and Kidder, Peabody, and more recently for a New York wealth management boutique. Three days after graduating from Harvard College, I began my financial career with Citicorp in the Philippines, and then moved to Chase Manhattan in New York and Australia. I earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. These days? Most of the time I'm writing my second novel for St.Martin's Press and blogging about wealth management on Acrimoney.com.]]> 51 male Bronxville, NY 06/2009 12/2009 63460 Joseph Finder 1385698 Karen Dionne 30 2 1 true 5701921 read 0 true 5313884 currently-reading 1 true 5313883 to-read Vanished (Hardcover) by Joseph Finder]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64656880 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255635445s/6346436.jpg 2455936 Norb Vonnegut http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245888747p2/2455936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2455936-norb-vonnegut Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:28:33 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61488813 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255967534s/6365770.jpg 2455936 Norb Vonnegut http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245888747p2/2455936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2455936-norb-vonnegut Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:58:32 -0700
Thank you for putting Top Producer on your shelf. I hope you enjoy my debut novel. And please let me know what you think when you finish.

Nice to meet you on goodreads and all the best,

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Norb]]> Top Producer: A Novel of Dark Money, Greed, and Friendship (Hardcover) by Norb Vonnegut]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60987630 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255967534s/6365770.jpg 2455936 Norb Vonnegut http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245888747p2/2455936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2455936-norb-vonnegut Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:10:59 -0700